Chapter 544 - Chapter 544: Chapter 531: Football Match (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets) (1/2)

Chapter 544: Chapter 531: Football Match (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

“Alright, you should get back, we’re leaving soon.” After urging Chu Jinnian, he continued to press.

Chu Jinzhou blinked in confusion.

Why did he always feel like his big brother was acting very off with him today?

However, it seemed there wasn’t any evidence to prove this…

Having personally driven the carriage, Chu Jinnian arrived at Zhuang Qingning’s front door.

The door to Zhuang Qingning’s house was tightly closed, Chu Jinnian knocked, but no one responded.

“Is Big Sister Ning not at home?” asked Chu Jinzhou.

“Hmm.” Chu Jinnian nodded slightly in disappointment, “She’s probably busy with things, let’s go check the workshop, she might be there. If she’s not, we’ll head to the shop in town later.”

When Zhuang Qingning was not at home, it was always because she was busy with business. Going to these places to look for her would definitely prove fruitful.

After parking the carriage nearby and tethering the horses to a tree, Chu Jinnian led Chu Jinzhou to the workshop.

A group of children ran in from outside the village, laughing and shouting. Seeing Chu Jinnian and Chu Jinzhou, they stopped.

The one leading asked, “We don’t recognize you two, you’re not from Enji Village, right?”

“Did you also come to participate in Enji Village’s football competition?”

“Football?” Chu Jinzhou was confused. “What’s that?”

“You don’t know about football? It’s this!” The boy leading waved the ball in his hand. “It’s called football because it’s kicked with feet. It looks like Cuju but it’s not the same. It’s really fun.”

“Nevermind, it seems like you don’t know what it is. Explaining would be a waste of time.”

“Yeah, let’s not waste our time, it’s about to start. We need to hurry, otherwise we’ll be late and won’t be able to see it. I heard that for this football competition, the winning team gets to pick up twenty catties of tofu, ten catties of century eggs, and ten catties of tofu skin from the workshop each month. Children from nearby villages have all come, it’s definitely going to be a spectacular event.”

As the children were speaking, they didn’t pay any more attention to Chu Jinnian and Chu Jinzhou and ran ahead.

“Let’s go, have a look.” Chu Jinnian quickened his pace.

“Aren’t we going to find Big Sister Ning?” Chu Jinzhou quickly caught up, asking as he did so.

“Just now, those children said that if they win, they can collect a lot of things. All these things come from your Big Sister Ning’s workshop, so where do you think Big Sister Ning is?”

“I see.” Chu Jinzhou suddenly brightened and caught up with Chu Jinnian’s quick pace.

The two of them followed the children, passing through the village to reach the other side. Sure enough, they saw that at the entrance of the village, people were densely gathered together, occasionally erupting in cheers.

Chu Jinnian, accompanied by Chu Jinzhou, moved to the side to watch this so-called football game.

The wide field was about two acres, roughly leveled, and marked with lines using lime. There were goalposts made of wooden frames at the left and right sides of the field, guarded by one person each. In the field, eight children were running back and forth, kicking the ball under their feet.

The children were wearing red and blue bands and seemed to be divided into two teams. Both teams were trying hard to kick the ball into the opponent’s goal but they were fiercely obstructed. It was a stalemate and extremely intense.